PS: This is a REALLY long post. :DToday, I'm going to rant about a site I barely even care about anymore. I'm going to point out the reasons why I loathe Neopets so much. Sorry to those of you who -- still, probably -- like the site. I just need to remove some of the disdain still apparently existent in my tiny wall of prejudice. And, in case your too blatantly obsessed with the Neopet-ness, I'm here to tell you about the downside of this site.
Neopets:
A highly controversial online game.Created in 1999, Neopets is a never-ending online game, in which you take care of pets, buy/sell/trade items, earn NP through games/auctions/shops, and chat on the messageboards. It used to be a fun way to kill time, but now the Neopets Team is too obsessed with putting their Neopets brand out there with annoying merchandise and promotions at stores no one in the world knows the locations of. Neopets is dying a slow, painful death because the Neopets Team is too busy sitting in front of their computers all day and night, eating pizza and doughnuts, and randomly freezing people's accounts for no apparent reason. Plus, they don't even put out New Features relevant to the average user anymore.
What used to be a cool pet site, but now sucks (real hard). And here are the top 10 reasons why:
1:
Shameless Advertising.
They have 3 advertisements on almost every page.
One on the top, one on the bottom, and one on the side. Advertising things like online dating services, weight loss programs, and phone companies. And those good-for-nothing, sorry-excuse of a staff team even bother to make shitty sponsor items that the site could happily survive without.
The staff is too deep into advertising to care about anyone anymore. The only thing they care about now is making money. Neopets doesnt care about the quality of their site anymore. For example, the McDonalds promotion. Does neopets care that the site cannot handle so many new members? No. As long as Neopets gets their page views, their sponsors will pay them. Soon they will have a premium service, where paying consumers will have the benefit. More avatars, more random events, and so on. So if you want to experience the best of neopets, get your credit cards ready, because the only thing those greedy bastards at neopets care about are Benjamins and Jacksons.
2:
Favoritism.
Let's face it! There's only a handful of people TNT (theneopetsteam) actually give a shit about.
Featheralley, Hrobi, Garret_jaxx (sp?), Hubrids_mansion, Jazz_invinceable , and a couple others. These people will
not never be iced no matter how many rules they break. And even if they did, their about the only users TNT would bother to thoroughly investigate.
3:
Message boards.
The message board used to be cool... like four years ago. Now they suck. Neopets changed the format to look more professional... and screwed everything up. Completely deleting the GC (general chat), which used to be nice. Y'know, before n00bs took over.
4:
Glitches and bugs.
Neopets has countless glitches and bug which they will never fix. I myself have lost well over 15 million in items and np's (example: I lost a SOS while taking it off my pet. Plus I've lost large sums of Neopoints countless times while trying to put them into the bank). And neopets never refunds anything you lost during a glitch... unless you're featheralley of course...
5:
Cheaters.
Neopets is full of gay-ass cheaters.
They've made it impossible for anyone who doesn't cheat to get on a high score list for a game.
6:
They're Hypocrites.
They'll freeze your account if you post pictures of yourself in which you are slightly immodestly dressed. And yet they have faeries with their boobs hanging out all over the site, wearing skirts that sure show alot-o-thigh.
They'll freeze you if you mention any alcoholic beverages, and yet they have them as items on their site! *points to a certain item called "red wine" and many other wines*
Noooo cussing. Or else they'll freeeezeee youuuu.
*points to the old maraqua vid with the pirate swearing.... also points to the faerie who swears* Mmhmmm.
7:
Scams.
The site is full of people trying to scam other players. Pretty much the only reason guilds exist anymore is for people to host scams.
8:
Lack of original games.
Every effin' game on that site is a ripoff of another game. Not only this, but many of the new games are based on sponsors.
9:
Widely understaffed.
They have far too few monitors for the amount of people who use the site. Ever noticed why the 'good' shops always remain empty for hours on end? Cause' the very few staff members won't even bother to restock them ontime. Instead of refilling most shops every few hours, it could take up to a whole DAY.
10:
Freezer/Report-happy nazis.
People will report you for ANYTHING on that site. And I mean anything. And regardless to what neopets says, no, they DON'T actually check in on the situation. I've been falsely reported and frozen countless times. If you merely say something like "I don't like Good Charlotte, I prefer Dropkick Murphys." ... someone WILL report you, and if enough twits report for it, you WILL be frozen.
In fact, about 25% of iced accounts are people who done nothing wrong, but the automatic monitors (TNT) also uses loop holes and freeze you. This has been done repeatedly. Eventually, some people make new accounts and that adds on to the counter (The amount of users on the site, frozen and active). The more accounts filling the counter, the more the staff gets paid by sponsors. And they make the matter of using your time on the site to pretty much give money to some lazy bastard; TNT has created a number of "hidden rules" and these rules aren't shown in the Neorules. Even so, these rules are used as an excuse for giving out warnings or freezing people.
And those are the top ten reason why I despise that site.
Though if you still like to play regardless of those reasons, here's the Top Ten tips on how NOT to get iced:
1: Don't have anything on your user look-up
2: Don't talk to ANYONE
3: Don't be in a guild
4: Don't have a pet
5: Don't play any games
6: Don't share a computer with anyone or anything
7: Don't buy anything from any shop
8: Don't log on from ANY other computer
9: Don't leave for 3 years then log back into your account
10: Don't get anything from the money tree.
The EndSweetAznBabie69: Lik omg dis Neopets thing is lik sooooo popular! It has lik over 80 million users!
DeathToNeopets: You realize that out of the 80 million users, about 79,800,000 accounts were rendered inactive due to constant scamming, random freezings, and plain stupidity on part of the users to get themselves frozen?
SweetAznBabie69: But lik Neopets is lik sooooo cool cuz you can get boyfriends on the chat!
DeathToNeopets: Yeah Neopets is great for that if you like fat, unattractive, lifeless, 13-year old nerds who can't step out of their houses for one second.
SweetAznBabie69: I lik how Neopets updates the site with new stuff everyday!
DeathToNeopets: Yeah, I'm so excited about the new plushie they released that costs 9 million NP. Oh yeah, I think that new paint brush color they made looks awesome - what was it called again? Oh yeah, Crap.
SweetAznBabie69: I'm lik sooooo hyped for the new promotion their having at that store! I'm gonna get soooo much stuff from there and enter in all my rare item codes!
DeathToNeopets: They're holding the promotion in South Africa, and all the rare items are pieces of worthless crap which should be thrown at the symbol of cybernetic totalitarianism that has become The Neopets Team.
